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The History of the Crusades Podcast Presents Reconquista: the Rise of Al-Andalus and the Reconquest of Spain Episode 2 the Final Years of the Visigoths The History of the Crusades Podcast presents Reconquista: The Rise of Al-Andalus and the Reconquest of Spain Episode 2 The Final Years of the Visigoths Hello again. Last time, in our first episode, we tracked the history of the Iberian peninsula all the way from Roman rule to the time of the Visigoths. In this episode we will be looking at the final days of Visigothic rule. Ideally, I would now zoom down to the peninsula in the year 700 and set out in detail the events of the next decade or so, but there's a problem with this. The problem is that no one really, at that time, was chronicling the events which were taking place, or if they were those records have now been lost. In fact, most of the source material which exists on the final years of Visigothic rule was written decades or longer after the events took place, and unfortunately, those chronicles weren't created with the aim of recording accurately what transpired. No, those chronicles were written with the aim of putting a spin on past events to serve the narrative that the chronicler was attempting to establish in their own era. In effect, the recent past was mythologised in order to explain current events. This, of course, poses a problem for anyone trying to faithfully reconstruct the events of the early 700s, as much of what has survived is in the form of legend, or at least partially fictionalised accounts, which are probably only loosely based on fact. I guess then that it's only appropriate that we start our examination of this period with one of the more popular and enduring legends to survive from that time. I'm going to quote Richard Fletcher's description of the legend as set out in his book “Moorish Spain”. Richard Fletcher describes the legend as having been recorded in both Christian and Muslim sources covering the final years of Visigothic rule. Okay, so here is the legend, and I quote: A king of Spain in ancient time built a tower in which he deposited a secret. He sealed the tower with a mighty padlock, and laid upon his successors the obligation, each by turns, to add an extra padlock so as to preserve, evermore inviolable, whatever was concealed within. Twenty six kings came and went, respecting his wishes. Then there succeeded a rash and headstrong young king named Roderic. Resolved to penetrate the tower's secret, against the advice of all of his counsellors, he had the 27 padlocks opened, then he entered the chamber within. On its walls were painted Arab horsemen, scimitars at their belts, spears brandished in their right hands. In the middle of the room stood a table made of gold and silver set with precious stones, upon it carved the words “This is the table of King Solomon, son of David, upon whom be peace.” There was an urn on the table which was found to contain a scroll of parchment. When this was unrolled, the following words were revealed. “Whenever this chamber is violated and the spell contained in this urn is broken, the people painted on these walls will invade Spain, overthrow its kings, and subdue the entire land.” End quote. Okay, so the shorter version of this legend is that everything was fine until an idiot called King Roderic came along and paved the way for the invasion of Spain by Islamic horseman. So the question we clearly need to ask ourselves is: who was King Roderic, and what exactly did he do? Well, to understand the elevation and rule of Roderic, we have to go back to the year 680 the rise to power of the Visigothic king Erwig. According to a chronicle written in the 9th ​ century, King Erwig had administered a drug to the previous King, King Wamba, an elderly but respected and competent nobleman who had reluctantly been elected to rule Visigothic Spain eight years earlier. The drugs secretly given to King Wamba caused him to lose consciousness for a lengthy period of time. Convinced that he was dying, his courtiers shaved his head and dressed him in the clothing of a monk. When the drug wore off though, King Wamba woke, and would have been perfectly able to continue ruling except for the highly inconvenient fact that there was actually a law in place preventing anyone who had a shaved head from being king. So King Wamba retired himself off to a monastery, and renounced the throne in favour of Erwig, totally unaware of the fact that Erwig had engineered the whole series of events. Unsurprisingly, King Erwig encountered quite a bit of resistance to his rule, and rumours that he had acquired the throne via devious means rightly plagued his entire reign. In an effort to mend fences and build bridges, he married his daughter to King Wamba’s nephew, a man called Egica, and named Egica as his successor. When Erwig died, Egica did in fact find himself elected king, and as soon as the feast was being packed away following his coronation, he split with Erwig's daughter, apparently on the advice of the former King Wamba, who was dabbling in politics from his monastery. Then, apparently also at the urging of former King Wamba, King Egica decided to go on a revenge-seeking demolition of all of King Erwig’s relatives. Once he had confiscated the property of a goodly number of King Erwig's family members and forced them into exile, he seemingly took a liking to the whole confiscate-property-and-send-people-to-their-doom policy. So, with the support of the kingdom's bishops, he accused the Jewish people living on the peninsula of conspiring with the Muslims of Northern Africa in a treasonous manner. He then confiscated their property and reduced them all to slavery. King Egica seemed to be enjoying the power and wealth his new position afforded him, so he decided to take a crack at installing a system of hereditary kingship within Visigothic Spain, by declaring that his son Witiza would be the next king. To enforce this declaration, he entered into a sort of power sharing arrangement with Witiza. When King Egica died in the year 702, Witiza did indeed become king, and he followed the hereditary kingship policy started by his father by declaring that his son, Akhila, would be king after him. King Witiza, though, was neither a competent nor a popular monarch. He was a notorious womaniser and was accused of encouraging priests and other Church officials to take mistresses and wives, a move which caused a backlash against his role by conservative Christians. The result of all of this was when King Witiza died in the year 710, there was a general reluctance and unease about crowning his son and successor, Akhila. In fact, an alternative candidate for king was put forward, a monarch who would be elected to the position and whose elevation to the throne would signal an end to the ill-conceived experiment with hereditary monarchy. That candidate was (you guessed it) Roderic. So who was this Roderic chap? Well, he was a man of noble birth, a duke in fact, whose father had been blinded on orders from King Egica. The candidacy of Roderic for the throne was gaining widespread support, particularly around the seat of power in Toledo. In fact, his support base was so strong that those who preferred the hereditary candidate Akhila were left with only two options: they could either abandon Akhila and throw their support behind Roderic; or they could attempt to force Roderic from the throne. Trouble was, if they decided to force Roderic from the throne, they were going to require outside assistance. There was just not enough military backing for Akhila inside Spain to provide any realistic chance of success. So Akhila's family members reportedly sent some envoys across the strait to Northern Africa, to seek Muslim assistance to overthrow Roderic. Now, back in the year 710, the Islamic religion was a relatively new phenomenon, and to say that it was “trending” across the Middle East and northern Africa at this time was an understatement. The Prophet Muhammad had laid the foundations of the religion less than 100 years earlier, and it had spread like wildfire. The Arabian peninsula, or Arabia, around the time of Muhammad, was composed of tribes who spent most of their energy fighting each other. However, as the teachings of Muhammad spread across Arabia it became a unifying force, until eventually, to the shock and horror of the Byzantine Empire and the Persian Empire, the two most powerful regional forces in the Middle East at that time, the fighting men of Arabia stopped fighting each other, and looked beyond Arabia for other lands to conquer and other people to bring their new religion to. A mere 30 years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the Islamic religion had spread out from the Arabian peninsula into Byzantine and Persian territory in the Middle East, and had even extended over northern Africa, firstly to Egypt and then further west into the lands of the Berber people. Prior to the arrival of the Muslims, the region of northern Africa which is today occupied by the countries of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, was governed by the Byzantines and the local Berber people. By the time the Arab Muslims invaded the region a few decades after the death of Muhammad, the Byzantine presence was limited to a handful of heavily fortified trading ports, most notably the cities of Carthage and Tripoli.
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